Fake Lagos State land use officer nabbed by RRS

 Olaitan Shofolahan, 37, a man arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command for impersonating officials of the Lagos State Land Use Charge has blamed unemployment as the cause of his action.

Shofolahan, an Accounting graduate of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, was arrested on Thursday in Lekki Phase 1, while attempting to defraud a resident of the posh estate of several millions Land Use Charge dues.

The suspect, who was working in his brother’s audit firm in Sabo, Yaba, before abandoning the job in search of better offer, stated that his moves to join the Lagos State Public Service was frustrated by lack of vacancy.

According to the suspect, “I was working with my brother in his audit firm in Sabo, Yaba, earning N45, 000 monthly salary before I left the firm in search of employment.

I was at Lagos State Civil Service Commission several times to seek employment. It was during one of my visits that I learnt that payment for Land Use Charge in the state is through a code. The code is engraved on every metal sticker issued to every house.

It is with this code that you get an annual bill of the house and that you can get your charges printed out for you free with the bills. That was how I started moving round choice location to get their code and print their bills.

Any house that does not owe, I discard but those with huge bills, I work on them. I have being in the business since February, 2015. I have observed that owners of buildings in Lekki have capacity to settle their bills quickly, that was why I have focused there

Unfortunately for me, it was this location that I was caught. I entered the building in Lekki Phase 1 unknown to me that the officials of the Lagos States Land Use Charge were there with the house owner. The owner of the building after sitting me down, invited RRS officials to arrest me.”